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A powerful rancher always protects his wild adult son by paying for damages and bribing witnesses, until his crimes become too serious to rectify.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and bleak.
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- classical in formformally daring
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- John Chardon TMDB · Feb 20177/10
I'm A Runaway. Rancher and old school Westerner Lee Hackett is determined to mould his two sons in his own tough gun-fighting image. Something that backfires when his eldest boy, Ed, becomes a murderer. Gunman's Walk on plot synopsis and summaries sounds like your standard B Western fare, and certainly the theme of parental influence is nothing new. But Phil Karlson's film, adapted from Ric Hardman's story, has many things going for it to keep it from being mundane and used solely as a time filler. It fuses together multiple issues, parenting, prejudice and ignorance during a time of change in the old Wild West, it's central character, Lee Hackett (Van Heflin), is seen as the link between old and new. He has primarily lived his life as a shooter and killer of Indians, something that he is not totally committed to shaking off, but here he is now, a most respected and feared member of the community, faced with his two sons both taking different paths. One, Ed (Tab Hunter), is full of bile and gun slinging machismo, represents the old West. The other, Davy (James Darren), doesn't need a gun to feel like a man, his affection for half Indian Clee Chouard (Kathryn Grant) clearly gives a
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Cast
- Van HeflinLee Hackett
- Tab HunterEd Hackett
- Kathryn GrantCecily "Clee" Chouard
- James DarrenDavy Hackett
- Mickey ShaughnessyDeputy Sheriff Will Motely
- Robert F. SimonSheriff Harry Brill
- Edward PlattPurcell Avery
- Ray TealJensen Sieverts
- Paul BirchBob Selkirk
- Michael GrangerCurly
Crew
- Phil KarlsonDirector
- Frank S. NugentScreenplay
- Charles Lawton Jr.Director of Photography
- George DuningOriginal Music Composer
- Jerome ThomsEditor
- Fred KohlmarProducer
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